This summer has been a whirlwind, and the list of things I wanted to accomplish has collected dust unfinished. But it has been beautiful and full of life to the extent that I can hardly catch my breath. I am overwhelmed by the grace of God and simultaneously burdened by the world around me. In […]

If you haven’t already seen, I’ve given my blog a facelift, and it’s very own domain name! My writing has evolved this past year, and with it I have settled into a much more focused intent. My hope is to continue writing intentionally and with more focus. With the new domain: http://www.oceansneverfill.com, I’ve also started […]

If you are reading my blog for the first time, or new to this series, I would ask that you read my introductory post here to get a better understanding of my reasons for the series. I’m seeing a big trend, especially in my own generation, that while on the surface seems to be a […]

Before I begin I think it’s necessary to establish the framework from which I write, and the reason I’m writing at all. I’m writing because I see lost men and women searching desperately for life, compromising in that desperation and finding emptiness and misery; and most of those who call themselves the Church have responded […]

I don’t really do “arbitrary”, I’ve always been a calculated, over-thinker; this hasn’t always led to the best decisions–I did carefully weigh the decision to jump off our roof with a garbage bag as a parachute before my mom read my 9-year-old mind and caught me on the way out of the attic window–but I […]